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Pudel - 16.03.2010, 23:24ENgliSch Netting old friends
Reading Text II: Netting old friends
A) Like millions of teenagers around the world, Sue Bloom spends several hours socializing
online every day. She posts pictures, meets new friends and updates her blog. The only thing
is, Bloom isn’t a teenager or a twenty-something college student – she’s a 58-year-old art
historian. And the brand-new site where she hangs out, Eons.com, is for baby boomers (and
older) only: you have to be at least 50 to join. “Social networking sites are wonderful for
people of my generation,” says Bloom, who lives in Maryland. “We’ve always been really
social, and they’re all about developing a community.”
B) Forget teen haunt Xanga and college student staple Facebook. Online social networking
isn’t just for youngsters anymore. Of course, only 1 million of the more than 215 million
social networkers regularly active today are older than 50. But by the end of the year that
number could explode to 20 million, says a new study from global analysts Deloitte, due
out later this month. Silver surfers could prove to be an even more coveted online group
than their teenage predecessors. “They’re the future of social networking,” says Paul Lee,
director of technology research at Deloitte.
C) The rising number of older networkers has something to do with the teenage market reaching
saturation. In Ireland, for instance, 90 percent of teenagers already actively use Bebo; in
the United States, it’s hard to find a college student without a MySpace page. To expand,
networking sites are being forced to shift their focus to older users. “Future growth has to
come from older people,” says Bebo founder Michael Birch. “There’s no choice.”
D) Online networking took off as a phenomenon three years ago with the launch of Web
2.0 Software like JavaScript and XML, which make online design relatively easy to do.
Although MySpace was founded only in 2003, News Corp. recently shelled out $580 million
for the company, and Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube, the immensely popular videosharing
site. Neither firm, however, has posted a profit, and it’s not clear if they will. Social
networking’s traditional bread-and-butter users, the 30-minus generation, grew up on free
music from Napster and are loath to pay for anything they get on the Web. Advertisers have
been reluctant to have their brands displayed on unmonitored sites, which are often rife
with unsavory postings. And although teens may have lots of time, they lack cash.
E) Baby boomers, on the other hand, have both time and money. They’re also more refined
and restrained in the messages they post, which appeals to advertisers. Jeff Taylor, the
entrepreneur who made millions off popular job-search site Monster.com, which he founded
back in 1993, seems to have another hit on his hands with Eons, the social networking site
for the 50-plus crowd only. Eons hit the Net in late July, backed by $10 million in venture
capital, and now boasts more than 100,000 members and has welcomed almost a million
unique visitors. In only a few months it has signed on numerous advertisers, including
Hyatt Hotels, Verizon Wireless, Liberty Mutual and Fidelity. Beyond that, Deloitte’s new
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study on the rise of older social networkers predicts that baby boomers, unlike those of
the MySpace generation, will be willing to pay subscription fees for sites that offer the tech
support they desire.
F) The trend is happening from Tallinn to Tokyo. Eons has formed clubs around the interests
of an older crowd. Among the most popular are Bookaholics, an online book club which is
just starting its second book review now, and Becoming a Spiritual Adult, which encourages
members to discuss moral and ethical values.
G) What created this perfect networking storm for baby boomers? For one thing, the oldest
boomers – who just hit 60 last year – are retiring. That means they have time to spend on
networking sites that are wholly reliant on user-created content. Unlike their parents, baby
boomers aren’t looking for a quiet retirement. They want to stay active, social and connected
during a retirement in which they’re likely to live to more than 80. In the modern world, that
means online as much as in person. In the United States alone, there are 44 million people
over the age of 50 online.
H) In some important ways, however, boomers are exactly like the teenagers and young adults
who launched the online social networking phenomenon. As graduation keynote speakers
stereotypically say to their young audiences: “The world is your oyster.” But with boomers
having so many healthy years to look forward to on retirement, it’s just as much theirs.
Adapted from: Newsweek, January 15, 2007 (759 words)
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Reading Text III (GAPPED TEXT): Flames of hope
As for so many of us, the genocide in Darfur (Sudan) was merely an abstraction to Ashok
Gadgil, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. But in September
2004 he got a call from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Could Gadgil design
a screw press for Darfurians, the caller asked, so they could turn their garbage into biofuel
pellets? “I quickly showed him that there is not enough kitchen waste in home cooking to
produce much worthwhile fuel,” the physicist says, and USAID dropped the idea. [1]
. Eventually Gadgil decided that if he couldn’t redesign the fuel, he would redesign
the stove.
The violence in Darfur has not only left at least 200,000 dead but devastated the already arid
landscape. [2] As they hunt farther and wider for firewood, they are denuding
whole swaths of the countryside. Gathering firewood can now mean a seven-hour round trip,
during which women risk rape and mutilation at the hands of the Janjaweed militias that lurk
in wait. [3] A fact-finding visit to the region in late 2005 brought home the
problem’s urgency to Gadgil. “A huge majority of people were missing at least one meal a week
because they did not have fuel to cook with,” he says. [4] “That’s really sick,
isn’t it?”, he added.
Gadgil, a 56-year-old Mumbai native, had experience developing simple, life-saving technology.
One of his patents – a cheap method for disinfecting water using ultraviolet light – led to a
successful business start-up in 1996. [5] After returning from Darfur, Gadgil
worked with lab colleagues and students at UC Berkeley to modify an existing Indian stove for
Darfurians’ needs. “Cook stoves, although they look simple, are very complex creatures,” he says.
While the Indian stove excelled at producing low-intensity heat for cooking rice, for instance,
Darfurians needed a high-powered flame for sautéing onions, garlic and okra, ingredients in
their staple dish, mulah. [6]
The result of their efforts is the Berkeley-Darfur stove, a hollow drum that looks like a cross
between a lunar landing craft and a stop sign. A wind collar makes for a steady flame. Designed
with smooth airflow to fuel the fire and an upper rim that fits snugly with different-size pots, the
stove requires 75 percent less fuel than an open fire. [7] And those who now
pay for it, Gadgil estimates, could save as much as $200 a year, which could be used instead for
luxuries like new clothing and fresh meat.
The next step is mass production. Gadgil and his partners in Berkeley have teamed with
two non-profit organisations, Engineers Without Borders and CHF International, to set up
workshops in Sudan. The project is funded by USAID and individual donors. They hope
ultimately to distribute stoves to nearly all 300,000 refugee families. Gadgil and EWB have
yet to settle on a distribution plan. They won’t be handing the stoves out as charity – “
[8] ,” Gadgil says – but at $25 apiece, the devices are out of the reach of most
families. Gadgil favors some sort of leasing plan, allowing families to rent the stove for about 50
cents a week. The ultimate goal is for the refugees to take over the program, from manufacturing
to distribution, which would mean jobs and income for the devastated region.
Adapted from: Newsweek, July 16, 2007 (524 words)
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FACHABITURPRÜFUNG
zum Erwerb der Fachhochschulreife
an Fachoberschulen and Berufsoberschulen
ENGLISCH
Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008
Reading Comprehension Tasks: 9.00–10.30 Uhr
Name: Klasse:
Schule: Platznummer:
Variante 2
Reading Comprehension Tasks
Task I: Mixed Reading Tasks (12 credits)
Task II: Mixed Reading Tasks (10 credits)
Task III: Multiple Matching (8 credits)
Total : Reading Comprehension (30 credits)
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Task I: Pull up your pants or go to jail
Mixed reading Tasks
Mediation Englisch-Deutsch: (Absätze A – F) (5)
Beantworten Sie die folgenden Aufgaben auf Deutsch! Verwenden Sie hierfür die im Text
enthaltenen Informationen!
1. Welche konkreten Strafen wurden in der Stadt Delcambre für das Tragen von
herunter hängenden Hosen eingeführt?
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(2)
2. Erläutern Sie, welcher Vorwurf in der Formulierung „(…) worn as a badge of
delinquency“ (l. 17) zum Ausdruck kommt.
(1)
3. Erklären Sie, wie und warum das Tragen dieser herunter hängenden Hosen
ursprünglich entstanden ist.
(2)
Short-answer question / sentence completion (2)
4. Answer the following question by providing the required information from the text:
Which civil right has so far prevented lawmakers from banning sagging trousers
throughout the US?
(1)
5. Complete the following sentence:
According to the text, will be the
population group mainly affected by the new regulations against sagging trousers.
(1)
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Multiple-choice questions (paragraphs H – O ) (5)
Mark the most suitable option with a cross.
6. In the view of Annette Lartigue, sagging pants should be banned … (1)
A because they are just another fashion that will not last.
B in order to ensure that people wear the right clothes.
C in order to protect other people from offensive behavior.
D because more and more people are exposing themselves.
7. According to paragraph J, several school districts have … (1)
A banned crime-related items of clothing.
B taken some of their students to court.
C completely banned fashionable clothing.
D expelled drug users from school.
8. According to the text, the NBA (National Basketball Association) has introduced a
dress code because … (1)
A gang fights have broken out between several teams.
B it might lose supporters due to players’ behavior.
C some players have attacked wealthy spectators.
D advertising revenues have decreased significantly.
9. Professor Dyson expresses the view that … (1)
A sagging pants are offensive and can even lead to criminal behavior.
B the focus should be on addressing the underlying social problems.
C the actual problem is the conflict between black and white Americans.
D people’s style of clothing cannot be equated with a criminal lifestyle.
10. In this article, the author above all wants to … (1)
A compare regulations in different parts of the US.
B provide an overview of the current debate.
C criticize the supporters of the new legislation.
D warn readers about the effects of the new legislation.
Task I: / 12 credits
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Task II: Netting old friends
MIXED READING TASKS
1. Gapped summary (paragraphs A to C only!) (5)
Fill in the gaps with words taken from paragraphs A to C of the text (one word per line).
Baby boomers have always been interested in , networking and
being part of a community. Therefore, online social networking is becoming more and more popular
among the 50-plus generation. Until recently, it was only associated with teenagers,
their as an online group.
Those , as the older net users
are also called metaphorically, will perhaps be targeted even more intensively by online firms
than teenagers, as the market for youngsters has now arrived at a state of . So
if in social networking is to continue, it must come from the older
generation.
Mediation Englisch-Deutsch: (Absätze D – H) (5)
Beantworten Sie die folgenden Fragen auf Deutsch.
2. Aus welchen Gründen konnten bisher weder mit MySpace noch mit YouTube
Gewinne erzielt werden? (2)
a)
b)
c) Jugendliche haben wenig Geld zur Verfügung.
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3. Welche Gründe werden in Absatz G dafür angeführt, dass die Social-Networking
Angebote bei so vielen älteren Menschen auf so großes Interesse stoßen? (2)
a)
b)
4. Was bedeutet im Textzusammenhang: “it’s just as much theirs” (l. 56/7)? (1)
Task II: / 10 credits
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Task III: Flames of hope
Multiple matching (gapped text)
You are going to read a text on an invention making life easier for many people in the Third
World. The text contains 8 gaps. Use the box below to state which of the sentences A to L fits
best into each gap. There are three additional sentences which you do not need.
GAP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Sentence
Sentences:
A) More than 2 million people now fill groaning refugee camps.
B) The resulting company, WaterHealth International, now provides affordable clean
water for more than 1 million people in the developing world.
C) That means fewer risky trips outside the camp in search of firewood.
D) They have enabled him to distribute 100,000 stoves for free.
E) Since then, the political situation in Darfur has calmed down considerably.
F) But the problem continued to nag at him.
G) And since most families cook outside, the stove also needed to cope with the region’s
strong winds.
H) Men can’t make the trip in their stead – they’ll simply be killed.
I) Giving something away turns the recipients into beggars.
J) However, it is too expensive to be produced in great numbers.
K) Many families were selling some of their food in exchange for the wood to cook it with.
Task III: / 8 credits
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Task IV: Descriptive writing (9 credits)
Choose one of the following two tasks (1 or 2) and write between 80 –100 words.
1. Describing a cartoon: Describe the situation in this cartoon, which is entitled “Out of
business”, and state what point the cartoonist is making.
http://www.freechicago.org/freechicago/images/SmokeFree.jpg
2. Describing statistics: What do the following statistics tell you about CO2 emissions?
Adapted from: http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0508-world_bank.html
Annual per capita CO2 emissions in tonnes, 1980–2004
United
States
China Europe Africa
1980 1990 2004
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Task V: Argumentative writing (21 credits)
Choose one of the following topics (1 or 2) and write at least 200 words.
1. Composition
According to recent statistics, Germany has become a country with one of the highest numbers
of overweight people in Europe.
In your opinion, what are the main reasons for this development and what measures should be
taken to stop this trend?
2. Letter
Since you are interested in environmental issues, you want to do some voluntary work after
finishing school. You have found the following advertisement on the Internet and are planning
to spend four weeks in Australia.
Write a letter to your pen-friend from London and try to persuade him or her to join you on
this conservation project.
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